Contact

Prof. Dr.Wolfgang Eichhammer

Dr.Barbara Schlomann

Project

Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI

ODYSSEE- MURE - Monitoring energy efficiency in the EU

Background

Energy
policy-making always consists of setting objectives, which include an
increasing number of energy and climate policy targets. During the last years,
the need for reliable data and indicators for the monitoring of such targets
has grown considerably both at the national level and at the level of the EU.
At EU level, there are obligations to regularly report the development of the
energy efficiency progress as part of the national energy-efficiency action
plans (NEEAPs) to implement the directive on energy end-use efficiency and
energy services (ESD; 2006/32/EC). Its successor, the European Energy
Efficiency Directive (EED) from 25 October 2012 even provides for annual as
well as more comprehensive reporting obligations at three year intervals. In Germany,
the transformation of the energy system, the so-called “Energiewende” or
“energy transition”, is also accompanied by an official monitoring process. The
progress made towards the overall targets and the current state of
implementation are evaluated in annual reports, which are supplemented every
three years by a strategically oriented progress report of the German
government.

Description

It is obvious that such monitoring
processes need suitable tools to support the monitoring obligations of the
national Governments. The ODYSSEE database on Energy Efficiency Indicators and the MURE database on
energy efficiency policies and measures, which are coordinated in a joint
project by ADEME (France), make important contributions to the development of
EU-wide monitoring tools to analyze policy issues arising in the context of
energy efficiency and its links to global climate change. Both tools have been
recognized in the use made of their results by the European Commission and many
Member States.

ODYSSEE (Technical coordinator ENERDATA/France) provides a comprehensive and detailed technical and
economic database on energy data, energy-related activities and energy
efficiency indicators at the level of the whole economy and all end-use sectors
(residential, tertiary, industry, transport). The geographical coverage
comprises the EU-28 countries plus Norway (and in the new project, Switzerland
and Serbia, too). At the moment, it includes time-series from 1990 or earlier
until 2013/2014, which are regularly updated (1-2 times per year).

MURE (Technical coordinator Fraunhofer ISI/Germany)
is a database on energy
efficiency policy measures for all end-use sectors. Main purpose: (1) gather
and organize information on energy efficiency policies in the the EU-28countries
and Norway (Switzerland and Serbia will
be added in the new project, too) (2) gather information on qualitative and
quantitative impact evaluations (3) tool for the identification and analysis of
the policy measures included in the national energy-efficiency action plans
(NEEAPs) under the EED.
Several facilities have been developed both for ODYSSEE and MURE which allow
the user to make an easier and well-aimed use of the two databasesThe the new ODYSSEE-MURE project started in February 2016 In
the new project, a specific focus will be on measuring the multiple benefits of energy efficiency and
on capacity building in the EU Member States.